Last year, the Onondaga County Legislature voted to approve its own term limits. This year, legislature Democrats are trying to impose similar restrictions on the county executive.
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Sean Kirst: Eileen Gannon’s product was ice cream. Her brilliant legacy is a place of true community, in Syracuse.
Whatever brought you to Gannon’s for the first time, she understood how quality, warmth and humor were the means to bring you back.
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Residents of Clay will elect their new town supervisor this year. The result could have an outsized effect on Micron
Two Clay town board members are vying to become supervisor. Democrats are bullish they can flip the seat and eventually gain control of the town board.
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Sean Kirst: A Land Cruiser for Ukraine is Brad Clarry’s Navarino tribute to Hawaiian-born brother
The extraordinary tale of a Syracuse family with one foot in Elmwood and the other always rooted on the ‘Big Island’ of Hawaii.
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Syracuse lawmakers pass law banning biometric surveillance in public places
The ban follows the 2026 discovery that grocery giant Wegmans has been using biometric surveillance in its New York City stores.
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‘You must live’: Syracuse musicians, poet laureate to tell slain Gazan scholar Refaat Alareer’s story at benefit concert
Alareer, renowned for his depiction of life in Gaza under Israeli occupation, died in an Israeli airstrike. “Music for Palestine” is meant to spread the message of Alareer’s writings, organizers said.
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Syracuse lawmakers hear from expert about dangers of biometric surveillance ahead of vote that could the ban technology
Daniel Schwarz, senior policy analyst at the NYCLU, presented to Syracuse lawmakers about the dangers of biometric surveillance.
Posted inCNY Decides 2026
President Donald Trump has been pushing Congress to pass the SAVE Act. What would its passage mean?
As Democrats campaign to flip control of the U.S. Congress, Republicans hope to heed Trump’s calls to pass a controversial voter ID law before the upcoming midterm elections.
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Syracuse Housing Authority sees record interest in their Section 8 homeownership programÂ
Afi Olowu, who runs the program, called their recent increase in Section 8 homeownership applicants a win.
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Sean Kirst: Shot clock monument, in new spot, resumes its great eternal message for Syracuse
A few true believers, scribbling on napkins in an Eastwood bowling alley, transformed basketball and taught a lesson about possibility.
